How to Recover Deleted iMessages on iPhone in 3 Modes

iMessage allows iPhone/iPad users to send unlimited free messages along with text, pictures, videos, contacts, links over Wi-Fi. Accidental deletion is one of the most common reasons of data loss on apple device. If you failed to recover deleted data from iPhone, you can find the solution by reading this post. In this post, we summarize four methods to recover deleted iMessages on iPhone, you can choose one of them to recover your data according to your choice.

3 modes to Recover Deleted iMessages on iPhone with iPhone Data Recovery Program

iCloud or iTunes can back up data on iPhone/iPad, including iMessages or text messages. But if you never backed up iMessages in any way, you can still restore deleted or old iMessages without a backup. iPhone Data Recovery is a data recovery software specially developed for Apple users to recover deleted data from all models, including iMessage, App data, calendar, notes and so on.

No matter which mode you choose, you can preview and select data. After the recovered data is exported to the computer, the data can be viewed and used freely. Preview function allows you to restore iMessages from iPhone selectively. Just choose any data that you want and recover it, or get all deleted iMessages back. Now, follow the detailed steps to scan and recover deleted iMessages from iPhone directly.

Step 1: Download, install and launch iPhone Data Recovery on your computer. It provides 3 modes for you to restore iPhone iMessages. If you don't have any backup, choose the mode of "Recover from iOS Device".

Step 2: Connect your iPhone to the computer, and the program will automatically recognize your device and display it on the interface. You can select the data type you want to scan out. If you only way to recover deleted iMessages, select Messages and then click the Scan button to allow the program begin to scan iMessages on your device.
Step 3: After scanning, all found data on your iPhone will be listed by category. Click Messages to view iPhone text messages and iMessages. Deleted will be marked in red with phone number, date sent and message content. Select the deleted iMessages and  retrieve them from your iPhone to computer by clicking "Recover" button.

The above is how to directly scan and recover lost data with iPhone Data Recovery without backup. In addition, if you have a backup, you can select the mode "Recover from iTunes Backup" or "Recover from iCloud Backup" in the first step. iPhone Data Recovery supports you to selectively extract the data in the backup, and you can export the entire backup, or extract only part of it without overwriting and wiping any data on your original device.

How to Recover Deleted iMessages on iCloud

You can sync iMessages on your iPhone to iCloud to access them on all your devices (iPad, Mac), this is what Apple calls Messages in iCloud. On the other hand, after enabling Messages in iCloud on iPhone, once you delete iMessage on iPhone, the message will disappear on all your devices at the same time, and there is no way to recover data this method. However, if you didn't turn on message sync when you deleted your iMessages data, you can try checking for deleted messages on another Apple device with the same Apple ID.